GABR Transport - Sydney (7/23/2011)

HDD and I got the honor of assisting this past Saturday, June 23 on transporting Sydney to her fur-ever home.

Sydney was being fostered near Chicago, Illinois so she had to begin her journey very early in the morning.  GABR Transporter Cheryl started on the road at 6:30am with Sydney to bring her to Bloomington, IL to HDD and I (2 hours).  We were the second leg of her transport to her fur-ever home with us traveling 2 hours south to Effingham, Illinois where we met up with GABR Transporter Jan who was then going to drive Sydney to Mt. Vernon, Illinois where she would meet up with her fur-ever family then make her last journey to her fur-ever home in Harrisburg, Illinois.  Sydney was a very special girl and we would have never known she was even in the BUV with us during her transport.  She was so happy to meet everyone and didn't seem to know a strange face.  If there was one I could have kept, it could have been her but I knew she had a great new life ahead of her.  See Sydney is absolutely terrified of thunderstorms and loud noises.  But she has the perfect family as her Dad will be home all day with her and while he works at night she will have the company of her Grandma.  Sydney will never be left home alone again, to suffer through any storms by herself.

Sydney getting ready for her last leg of her transport. 

HDM giving lots of snuggles and hugs to Sydney before we said Good-Bye

We wish you nothing but the best in your new home, you deserve to be treated like a Queen.

Sniffs, HoundDogMom

POTP - Fred (Hound Girl)

Power Of The Paw For Fred

We seen this morning on Facebook that last night Hound Girl had a very scary night with Fred.  Fred has been having seizures for the last couple of weeks and they have been trying to control it with Thyroid meds and know Pehnob med for seizures.  From her updates on facebook it was a very long night for family and Fred.  From what I understand Fred is home and resting and they will continue to try to figure out the right combination for Fred and his meds.

I know she hasn't posted anything up on her blog but I am sure she will once she has had time to rest and gather her thoughts.  If you could maybe stop by and give Fred some Power of the Paw and give Hound Girl and her family some much needed love right know.  I believe they could use it.

Sniffs,

The HoundDogs and HoundDogMom

GABR Transport - General (7/15/2011)

With everything going on with Cleo I have totally spaced on posting on the latest transports that I have been assisting with.  On Friday, July 15, 2011 I had the privlage of transporting General into GABR. 

General

General had a very rough life and is only 2 years old.  And has been nicknamed "General Hoppy" by his foster parents.  See General only walks on 3-1/2 legs.  He has 3 perfectly good legs, but can only use his 4th leg (right front) for balance while sitting or while doing stairs.  The vets feel that General had been hit by a car sometime ago, and his leg was broke but was never fixed properly, but fixing it at this point in my life will cause me a great deal of pain.  My bad leg does not cause me to in any pain and sure doesn't stop me from doing anything a young basset does.

General also was heartworm positive when he came to GABR, but was very lucky that it was just a mild case and he only had to endure 2 heartworm treatments.  Which he came through with flying colors.  He only has a few days left of crate rest and then he will be available to find his fur-ever home.

Best of Luck General, you deserve to find your fur-ever home real soon.

Sniffs, HoundDogMom

Our Blog Makeover

So what do you think of our Blog Makeover?

We have wanted to have a blog makeover for some time, and our secretary (HDM) is not very good when it comes to changing the blog format. It took her like 29 zillion years to figure just how to change our picture or the background. So we were seeing lots of our blog friends were getting a makeover and their blogs are looking pretty COOL.

Here are just a few that caught our eye recently.

Mr. Pip

Major Frankie Furter

We contacted the great design team of (SAS – Sammy, Andy, Shelly).  Their Mom (Miss Judi) contacted our secretary (HDM) immediately to give her the details on how to start this blog makeover. We have to say the instruction were super easy to set-up for Miss Judi to work her magic to our blog. We are absolutely amazed at the things Miss Judi has done to our blog. It is absolutely AWESOME-PAWSOME and check out Winston he has made it to the top of the picnic table to be with his girls.  There will be a few tweaks here and there over the next couple of days but we thinks this is going to be so much more easy for HDM to manage.

If you have been thinking about having a blog makeover, hop right over to the SAS (Sammy, Andy Shelly) blog and leave them a comment. Miss Judi will get back with you immediately to begin the process.

What is really great about her blog makeovers is she doesn’t have a set fee for her blog makeover like some designers. Some designers ask for hundreds of dollars to do this. All SAS and Miss Judi would like to see would be maybe a donation made to their “treat fund” on their blog, but then that is not even necessary, strictly voluntary. Miss Judi just loves to do this for their blog friends. We just think that is super-duper cool and we are so glad we came to her for our blog makeover.

Thanks again to SAS and their most talented and kind Miss Judi.

Sniffs,
The HoundDogs and HoundDogMom

Worldess Wednesday - 7/27/2011

Worldless Wednesday

WTF

Note:  This was the outside temperature gauge on the BUV last Thursday July 21, 2011 at 3:00pm in the afternoon.  This is actual temperature, the Heat Index that day was 115 degrees.  

We have since cooled down to a very nice 95 degrees this week.  BOL

Sniffs, The HoundDogs